The document discusses different disk scheduling algorithms used in operating systems to efficiently manage requests to read and write data from disk drives. It describes seek time and rotational latency as the components of access time. It then explains first come first serve (FCFS), shortest seek time first (SSTF), SCAN, C-SCAN, LOOK, and C-LOOK algorithms. FCFS handles requests sequentially, SSTF selects the nearest request to reduce head movement, while SCAN and C-SCAN algorithms move the disk head across cylinders in single direction and wrap around. LOOK and C-LOOK reverse direction only after reaching the last request.